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Cargo

When passengers couldn't travel, cargo helped to hold up the aviation industry. Unable to fill their planes with people, many airlines temporarily converted passenger jets into cargo aircraft.

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China Airlines and GE Aerospace have signed an agreement to help the carrier maintain the engines of its Boeing 747-400Fs.

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